J. G. Fichte and a priori Providentialism

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: J. G. Fichte and a priori Providentialism

Sunday 19 May 2024 is the 262nd anniversary of the birth of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814), who was born in Rammenau, Saxony, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, on this day in 1762.

Fichte is often understood to be a transitional figure in German idealism between Kant and Hegel, and Fichte’s philosophy of history is not as well known as Kant’s before him and Hegel’s after him, but it constitutes a significant and distinctive part of his philosophical work. His delineation of Five Principle Epochs of human history is a stadial and teleological account of human progress toward moral perfection, but this is a theory of stages in the development of moral progress with a difference, since Fichte allows that moral progress is exclusively a matter of Inward Being.

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